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Current Issue of The Friday Times

January 7-13, 2010 - Vol. XXII, No. 47

 

 

Najam Sethi's Editorial

The price of passion
The wanton assassination of Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab, could be a tragic watershed in the history of Pakistan as it crumbles in the face of a severe onslaught by extremist religious ideology and passions. The tragedy is that some elements of the state are co-sponsors while others are hopeless accessories after the fact......
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Killing for piety
Ejaz Haider

     
 

A coalition of primitive emotions
Khaled Ahmed

MQM is rattled by what the army is doing and is losing its moorings in what one thought was steady political direction. Altaf Hussain is teetering on the brink of a dangerous personality-driven contradiction

     
 

Working with IMF
Safiya Aftab

Will the 2008 Stand-by Agreement be completed successfully over the next nine months? It's fairly clear that the main sticking point hindering the completion of the fifth review is the implementation of the RGST

     
     
 

A bit of Schelling, Mr Gilani!
Ejaz Haider

Time to go for the threat that leaves something to chance

     
     
 

Monetary policy and inflation
Shahid Kardar

Inflationary pressures have been a mix of upward adjustments in administrated prices and inconsistent macroeconomic policies negatively influencing expectations of inflation

     
 

Policy debate and ownership
Nadeem Ul Haque

Excerpts from Dr Haque's address made at the 26th general meeting and conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists

     
     
 

A new card for Sindh
Ali K Chishti

reports on the MQM's ambitious rally in Bhitshah

     
     
 

Last man standing
Saadia Gardezi

Murder most foul

     
 

MQM’s dilemma
Ali K Chishti

MQM needs to come out of its student politics days and act as a mature political party

Features

       
 
       
   

Tide down
Nafisa Rizvi

reviews a big new art exhibition

       
 
       
   

My merry christmases
Sadia Dehlvi

on the changing face of a special season

       
 
       
   

Mound of the living
Sumaira Samad

finally goes to Mohenjo Daro

       
 
       
   

Together forever
Haroon Khalid

gets to the bottom of a joint grave in Punjab

       
       
   

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
By Ustad Ghulam Haider Khan

       
       
   

Choose liberally
Lubna Anwar

advises Pakistani students who wish to study in America

       
       
   

Dhaka, down memory lane – Part IV
Tariq Mahmud

'What Bengal thinks today, the whole subcontinent thinks a hundred years later'

       
       
   

Writing on the wall
Numra Siddiqui

makes a film about graffiti in Lahore

 

   
 

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